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I Will Not Let You Fall
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”Why is it scary?” Tina asked gently.
”It’s scary without my mommy.”
Tina winced, feeling a deep flash of pity for the little girl. She looked around again, searching for the girl’s potential father, but out of all visitors there was no one that seemed to care about her.
”Visitor for Porter!” one of the guards shouted, making Tina jump literally and figuratively. Everyone in the room turned their heads in her direction as if knowing that she was the one being called out.
Tina got to her feet and proceeded toward an X-ray conveyor belt. But before reaching it, she turned back only to find the little girl still standing by that cold metal bench, looking forlornly at her.
”Ma’am, keep moving,” a guard ushered Tina forward.
Passing the X-ray, Tina found herself walking through the metal detector, which was a series of pat-downs and steel doors. One would open, let her through, then slam shut before another door opened, then shut. Metal clanged against metal. Each time one door would open in front of her Tina felt her heartbeat pounding through her cotton long-sleeve, for she expected Bette to stand there, waiting for her, smiling at her. But there was no Bette, just another door. Another door and another piercing buzz of the lock that seemed to mock her every thought. The fresh scent of autumn outside was becoming a faint memory, forgotten in this narrow windowless passage. This walk was nothing less than an ordeal, it made Tina feel like she must endure it to have a chance to see Bette.
Finally Tina was showed into the visiting room. Several low stools, parallel to the walls, faced a glass partition that extended to the ceiling, preventing any physical contact between visitor and prisoner. Tina wanted to scream. The mere thought of being able to see Bette and being unable to touch her teared Tina apart.
Dejected, she entered her appointed half-secluded booth and took a seat. On the other side of the glass Tina could see a single door, which Bette would be coming through any second. Her heart was still hammering hard in her chest and her palms were sweating. She pondered why it was taking so long. Never breaking her gaze, she kept staring at the door expectantly. It seemed the doors were everywhere here, creating the illusion of freedom of action and unlimited space. For a moment Tina thought she was going crazy. At this very moment she realized that she wouldn’t have held out a day in prison, not to mention many years.
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Welcome back!
I must say – i don’t like your Tina in this story – she’s too weak, too dependent from another’s opinions. Yes, she’s young, but still. And Bette is right – Tina left her too often to believe in her love. So T has a lot a work to do, if she wants to fix it.
And you will bring back B from jail earlier than 19 years, right?
I like that you are frequently updating my favorite story on here. I feel so sorry for Bette,19 years behind bars?? Anxious to see where this story goes!!
Hi Valerie:
Amazing update; I’m very sorry for Bette, I understand her bitterness, and I think she still loves Tina, and probably she loves her so much that she would like for Tina to be happy, a happiness she doubts it would be with her, so she is pushing Tina away; she also feels resentment because of Tina’s behavior when she left her a few months ago, and Bette can’t understand that Tina’s situation with her parents made her take some distance with Bette’s trial.
But I think Bette knows very well she lied to Tina about her criminal activities and she has some responsibility in their separation.
Now, everything depends on Tina’s next step, would she be willing to wait for Bette? Will Bette recover some hopes about her future?
The answers are in your quill Valerie, but one thing I know is that Bette is empty and she needs Tina to get hopes in her future, and Tina needs Bette to survive.
Thank you for this great chapter, but now you leave us heartbroken, and with lots of questions.
Please, Valerie, post soon (seriously), I’ll be anxiously waiting.
P
This is heartbreaking Valerie!
Nineteen years in prison, i feel so sad for Bette. Is she gonna survive it, she is broken, her spirit died, especially after Tina left her more than once and after Marcus died.
Tina is young and i really believe she loves Bette, but she listen to much to other people and runs away when she promised Bette that she would stay with her.
I feel so sad for both of them, my heart is breaking. Is this really goodbye? Nineteen years is a long time and i hope there is a way for Bette to get out sooner, but i do understand that a relationship is very hard to remain and that Bette doesn’t want Tina to put a hold on her life waiting for her and why she said goodbye.
Valerie, i truly enjoy this story and while my heart is breaking, i still believe that you will give us a happy ending. Your story title,” I will not let you fall” give me the hope that you will bring them back together.
One request, i hate Helena, please don’t let her and Tina get romantically involved.
I truly love this story and anxiously await each update. Nineteen years….of course she did plead guilty, so it’s not surprising the number of years. I can’t say that I like this Tina. I need her borrow someone’s backbone if she can’t find her own.
There has to be a silver lining in this and the two of them will be back together and in love. I’m sure Bette is purposefully pushing Tina away.
Post soon!
Thanks for this great post! Hope we won’t have to wait for 19 years :) Can’t find in my heart any hatred for Bette-the-criminal and can’t find any sympathy there for Tina-the-good-girl. What a paradox! You’ve created a very intense and charismatic image of Bette.
Well geez that was up lifting…Not!…that is some freaking sad shit there…